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Aerial swarms can substantially improve the effectiveness of drones in applications such as inspection, monitoring, and search for rescue. This is especially true when those swarms are made of several individual drones that use local sensing and coordinati ...

In Virtual Reality (VR), users provided with a virtual body and congruent multi-sensory stimulation usually experience a feeling of embodiment of the virtual body, which can be interpreted as a transfer of bodily self-consciousness toward the avatar's body ...

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In ferroelectric switching, an applied electric field switches the system between two polar symmetry-equivalent states. In this work, we use first-principles calculations to explore the polar states of hydrogen-doped samarium nickelate (SNO) at a concentra ...

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Think Energy Efficiency the Energy Book for Building Human Interaction

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First-Person View Interfaces for Teleoperation of Aerial Swarms

The self and the avatar mutual influences in embodied Virtual Reality

Solar-assisted clean steam generator, a cleaner production approach for sustainable healthcare facilities

Renewable energy integration and waste heat valorization in aluminum remelting for co-producing kerosene and methanol

DBFS: Dynamic Bitwidth-Frequency Scaling for Efficient Software-defined SIMD

Green hydrogen production using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 bioanode and cuprous oxide-based photocathode

Advanced control strategies to exploit the hydropower potential enhancing ancillary services provision to the power system

Fusing Pre-existing Knowledge and Machine Learning for Enhanced Building Thermal Modeling and Control

'Fraternal-twin' ferroelectricity: competing polar states in hydrogen-doped samarium nickelate from first principles

Heuristic Estimation of the Vacuum Energy Density of the Universe: Part II-Analysis Based on Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Radiation

Electrical and Optical Manifestations of Flat Band Physics in Van der Waals Materials

Is the powersave governor really saving power?

Self-catalysed frontal polymerisation enables fast and low-energy processing of fibre reinforced polymer composites

Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage

High-order geometric integrators for the variational Gaussian wavepacket dynamics and application to vibronic spectra at finite temperature

Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators

Co-Design Optimisation of Morphing Topology and Control of Winged Drones

Secure Interface Design Leveraging Hardware/Software Support

Reliability and Long-term Performance of Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Modules

Identification of typical district configurations: A two-step global sensitivity analysis framework